More sewing...

I'm really into the little projects at the moment, and animals are always popular with the little people in this house.  As I was just stuffing this one into life, MissMini5 decided that she was first in line again for the elephant run, just like she was for the turtles...  Sadly she's mistaken because the test run is mine...  All mine!!  It's really cute and I like this one better as a pincushion, so I'm keeping Ellie, and the kids can have all of the turtles...

But I'm sure that by tonight I'll cave in and let them pick out some materials to have their elephants made...  I'm such a pushover sometimes...

So meet Ellie!.  She's still not finished yet, she needs eyes and some pretty felt flowers, but you get the idea...

YAY for Summer!

I love Summer...  Just love it!  The heat and the outside playing and the fun and beach and just everything about it.

There is just one drawback for me - humidity.  I have very dense, think wavy (wiry!) hair and in any humidity it just turns into a frizzball.  But anyway I digress... 

I also love the cute kids clothes that are more fun in summer...  Winter is just about layers, but summer is Fun!

And as such, this is the latest addition to Bubbs Summer wardrobe...

Sewing FRENZY!

I've been on a little sewing frenzy lately, playing around with some patterns and fabrics, and just generally making my kids heaps of clothes.  And they love having things that are made by their Mumma, and that no-one else has...  They LOVE one of a kind things!  So here's some of the things...

Random thoughts...

A friend asked me the other day why moppets 'n munchkins...  And it's something that I've always just called my kids.  When the first two were littler, I used to ask both of them if they were moppets or poppets...  And usually one would choose one nickname, while the other would choose the other name, and so we'd spend the day calling each other moppets and poppets.  Then when BubbyGirl came along, the older two were moppet and poppet, so she had to be called the little munchkin.

So I looked up google, and a moppet is another name for a rag doll (which is kinda cute!), and a munchkin keeps popping up pictures of munchkin hats.  So I'm still at a bit of a loss as to what a munchkin really is, but I've got a photo of BubbyGirl in a munchkin hat!

Cakes, cakes and more cakes...

And now for a more light-hearted post, and as one of my catch up posts...here are some cakes that I've done lately.

My family lives in another state, and my sister is always asking me to get around to putting some of my cakes up online so that she can look at them too.

So here goes...

So there's a few to start with!

Blogtoberfest 19-Oct-11

I know, it's been 9 days since my last post...  That almost sounds like I should be sitting in a confessional!   I'm going to make up for it though by posting a few posts per day...  Just to get into the habit again!

The reason for my slackness is that I've have been pretty busy!  Three kids will do that to me periodically, but this time I went away for the weekend with a couple of friends, for the first time in 4 years.

It still amazes me that sometimes we can meet people that we just click with, and feel totally relaxed around and they are just a blessing in our lives at that precise moment.  These two friends have come along at a time in my life when I was feeling quite alone, not necessarily lonely, but definitely separate from the rest of the Mum's at school and kindy.

They are two women that I really enjoy spending time with, mostly because we all just really GET each other and each others lives.   It's always really comfortable, compassionate and supportive (and crafty!) when we're together, talking for hours, drinking too much coffee or wine (not often enough!).

And if either one of them is reading this post, I just wanted to say how grateful I am that they have both come into my life.  Sometimes it's easier to type these things than it is to say!

Blogtoberfest 10-Oct-11

OK, so I registered a few days ago but only got to the linking and the icon on my page late last night, so today is my first official Blogtoberfest post!

Now that the kids are back at school, we've had to return our adopted silkworms.  When the holidays started, there wasn't many and the few that were there were little, scrawny looking worms.

By the end of the holidays, there's stacks of them and they're all big, fat and healthy, with three of them spinning their cocoons, ready for the metamorphosis into the cute little white moths that they become.

Anyway, I might have complained about having to clean out their home daily and drive around looking for mulberry leaves, but now that they're gone I miss them and their cute little fatness every morning!